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Good Lord, none of the ones they picked get a hard winter. Must be the top 50 largest metro areas they are looking at. I think Forbes forgets that there are cities that don't have 2 or 3 million people in them. Bah, yet another worthless list.
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The only reason the OP posted this was because NYC was listed as one of the worst on the list. But, we all know it's not nearly as bad here compared to all the midwest cities.
Having lived all over the USA…I have to strongly agree with the consensus that NYC doesn’t come close to belong on that list (no city from the Tri-State area south should be on that list). Winters in the Midwest, Intermountain West, Great Lakes, and New England are far worse. Big snowstorms are so hyped in NYC.
The list is like saying Los Angeles is as warm as Miami or Havana lol.
The list is kind of strange -- how can NYC be higher than Minneapolis?
If we're talking about larger cities, what about my city, Denver? Most Denverites will tell you that our winters are a lot less severe than the numbers indicate, but we do get over 60" of snow a year -- more than most any of the cities on this list (and in fact more than any other large city other than SLC and Great Lakes cities), and we live in a region that is world famous for snow, and we can sure get a lot of snow at times. Subjectively, I think that Denver's winters are far milder than any of these 10 cities due our dry climate and plentiful winter sunshine, but I don't think that's something that would show up in temperature and snowfall statistics.
Good points. What's remarkable about Denver's snowfall to me is how quickly it melts. Not so here in the Twin Cities where we still have a layer of Christmas ice/snow under several subsequent layers of snow, the most recent of which fell over the last 2 days. Chances are, it'll still be here a month from now.
I agree. No Buffalo and no Syracuse means the list has no credibility with me.
Maybe Forbes artificially limited its choices to the 25 largest cities in the US?
They said the top 50. I have no idea where Buffalo and Syracuse are on the spectrum. I'd vote Minneapolis myself. It all depends on what stats you use. If you look at # of below freezing days, I'd bet Mpls would be much higher. Columbus and Indianapolis do not have as many cold days as most of the other cities on that list.
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